Symphony of Science

by Dallas Criscoe

Table of Contents
  • Overview
  • Videos
    • The Case for Mars
    • The Poetry of Reality
    • The Unbroken Thread
    • Our Place in the Cosmos
    • We Are All Connected
    • A Glorious Dawn
  • Works Cited Page

Overview


Symphony of Science is a website founded in 2009 by John Boswell that is “designed to deliver scientific knowledge and philosophy in musical form.” Boswell uses a software program called “AutoTune” to artificially tune the voices of various scientists to various notes, thereby creating music videos with the lead singers being famous astronomers, biologists, and physicists.

His videos can be found at the Symphony of Science website.

Videos


The Case for Mars

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This installation expresses the central theme of scientists pushing for a manned voyage to Mars. The video describes some of the most beautiful features of Mars and compelling reasons why humans could potentially colonize this planet.

*Robert Zubrin, Carl Sagan, Brian Cox, and Penelope Boston.

The Poetry of Reality

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This video describes the beauty of science in general, containing quotes from a plethora of scientists from an extremely wide range of scientific fields.

*Michael Shermer, Jacob Bronowski, Carl Sagan, Neill deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Jill Tarter, Lawrence Krauss, Brian Greene, Stephen Hawking, Carolyn Porco, and PZ Myers.

The Unbroken Thread

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The Unbroken Thread focuses largely on the field of biology (specifically our evolution and ancestry), and it marvels at the “unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us.”

*David Attenborough, Carl Sagan, and Jane Goodall.

Our Place in the Cosmos

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This video attempts to put the human condition in perspective with a focus on cosmological perplexions and promote the continued search for scientific understanding.

*Robert Jastrow, Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, and Michio Kaku.

We Are All Connected

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This video marvels at the vast amount of interrelationships present in the cosmos between man, our planet, and the universe.

*Neill deGrasse Tyson, Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan, Bill Nye.

A Glorious Dawn

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John Boswell’s debut video. It contains video clips from Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series and Stephen Hawking’s Universe, and is the most popular to date.

*Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking.